We recently announced that our team is going heads down to get ready for our upcoming Closed Beta in a few months. In the meantime, we gave the community the tools to run their own playtests! These have been running for about two weeks now and we’ve absolutely loved seeing how the community has come together to create their own mini-playtests.
As a result, we’ve extended the uptime by two weeks! We will keep servers open for participating Discords until December 7th at 11:59 PST. At this point, we'll check how it's going for the community and may be able to extend it.
We’re also still taking sign ups from Discords who would like to participate in running their own playtests. Apply here.
HOW DO COMMUNITY-RUN PLAYTESTS WORK?
Discords who sign up to run Community-Run playtests and are accepted are given access to Arkheron queues that are available 24/7. Members can technically play at any time but we encourage organising playtest times to help ensure enough players are online at the same time to start a match.
Each Discord has its game servers hosted in one location. Right now, there are three Discords that have Community-Run playtests enabled:
Mobalytics hosted on North American servers.
Arkheron Competitive hosted on European servers.
BalorMage hosted on OCE servers.
You’re welcome to join all of the Discords! Just keep in mind that if the game servers are far away from you, you may not have the best ping.
HOW TO JOIN:
Get a game key. If you have one already, you’re set. Otherwise, each Discord has a sign up link that will grant you access.
Link your Discord account to the Arkheron Client.
Join the Mobalytics Discord, the Arkheron Competitive Discord, or BalorMage’s Discord depending on which server location or community you prefer. (You can join as many as you want!)
Get the ‘ArkheronPlaytest’ role in that Discord.
Check the Discord server(s) you joined their Discord for their designated playtest window or rally friends to come online to start a match at any time. Games need a minimum of 24 players in order to start.
TRAINING MODE
Training Mode will be available 24/7 for anyone who has a key. There are no additional steps required to join as long as you have downloaded the client. In Training, you can experiment with Arkheron’s item systems. The sparring room also is a great option for small groups of friends to self-organise mini-matches (1v1, 2v2, 3v3)!
Good luck, have fun!